2007
Attacks on the Press 2006: Yemen
YEMEN Presidential elections provided the backdrop for a series of troubling attacks against Yemen’s increasingly vocal independent and opposition press. As expected, President Ali Abdullah Saleh extended his nearly three decades in power by another six years, but the run-up to the September vote saw an upsurge in violence, intimidation, and legal harassment, along with…
Attacks on the Press 2006: Countries That Have Jailed Journalists
ALGERIA: 2 Djamel Eddine Fahassi, Alger Chaîne III IMPRISONED: May 6, 1995 Fahassi, a reporter for the state-run radio station Alger Chaîne III and a contributor to several Algerian newspapers, including the now-banned weekly of the Islamic Salvation Front, Al-Forqane, was abducted near his home in the al-Harrache suburb of the capital, Algiers, by four…
Attacks on the Press 2006: Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE The state-owned daily The Herald marked President Robert Mugabe’s 82nd birthday in February with a 16-page supplement of photos and “congratulatory messages from government departments.” Such hagiographic and pro-government propaganda dominates the media landscape in Zimbabwe, where Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party has waged a crackdown on the private press though a series of highly restrictive…
Attacks on the Press 2006: Europe and Central Asia Snapshots
Armenia Germany/Poland Poland Bosnia Italy Portugal Bulgaria Lithuania Romania Croatia Macedonia Serbia Cyprus Moldova Switzerland Denmark Netherlands ARMENIA • On May 25, authorities denied independent television station A1+ a broadcasting license for the 12th time. According to press reports, the National Commission on Television and Radio justified the rejection by saying that competitors submitted stronger…
Attacks on the Press 2006: Brasilversão Em Inglês
BRASIL Versão em inglês Embora a liberdade de expressão esteja sacramentada na Constituição brasileira de 1988, a capacidade dos jornalistas de cobrirem as notícias foi limitada por juizes cujas interpretações legais restringiram efetivamente a imprensa. Durante a disputa para a eleição geral de 1º de outubro, tribunais eleitorais proibiram meios de comunicação de cobrirem alegações…
Shots fired at reporter’s car
FEBRUARY 3, 2007 Posted February 6, 2007 Wilder Jordán, Nuestro Diario ATTACKED Jordán, correspondent for the Guatemala City-based daily Nuestro Diario in the eastern Zacapa province, told CPJ that an unidentified individual aboard a motorcycle shot several times at his unoccupied car. Jordán, who was not injured, believes the attack was retaliation for an article…
Journalists still missing one year on
New York, February 2, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that more than a year after Iraqi journalists Marwan Ghazal and Reem Zaeed were abducted by gunmen in Baghdad they remain missing. “The plight of Marwan Ghazal and Reem Zaeed underscores the enormous dangers faced by all journalists covering this conflict, but especially…
Editor sent bullet in mail over cartoon critical of the army
New York, February 2, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the authorities in Zimbabwe today to fully investigate a threat against veteran editor Bill Saidi who received a bullet in an envelope over a cartoon critical of the army. Saidi, editor of the independent weekly The Standard, told CPJ that a brown envelope…
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